Stuffed Salmon with Grape Leaves - Feast Your Eyes

by Nanette Maxim, Posted Mar 11th 2010 @ 10:00AM

Looking for the grape leaves here? By the time this grilled salmon is served, the leaves have done their job and gone. Blogger anotherpintplease uses grape leaves -- which he soaks in water for 20 minutes -- to wrap the fish as it goes on the grill (you can see some of these little bundles in the photo's background). They help maintain the salmon's moisture and flavor when it meets the flames. Once the fish is cooked, unwrap the package, toss the charred leaves, crack a Belgian beer and eat.

The recipe, which calls for a stuffing of walnuts, garlic, dill and cilantro, with lemon juice, is adapted from Stephen Raichlen's good-humored and always instructive The Barbecue Bible. And if you actually want to eat your grape leaves, try this traditional Greek recipe for stuffing them.

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Tags: grape leaves, grilling, salmon, the barbecue bible

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3-13-2010 @7:03PM Angela said... That picture looks good enough to eat! I love salmon, the grape leaves are an interesting way to
prepare it. Yum!
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3-13-2010 @9:01AM Victor said... I love to cook! this looks like a great tip I will use... a few years ago.. you couldn't get me into the kitchen! then my husband bought me a hilarious cookbook.. I can't tell you the name of it cause some of you will freak.. but if you have a good sense of humor and aren't easily offended.. check out b i t c h c o o k s . c o m.
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3-13-2010 @12:07PM Health Nut said... Grilling any type of meat, poultry or fish, until it’s charred or burned can increase your chances of getting cancer, according to the American Institute for Cancer Research.

High heat reacts with protein in meat, poultry and fish to create chemicals linked to cancer, especially of the colon and breast.

Heterocyclic amines are the name of the chemicals.

You CANNOT remove the chemicals that form within the cooked meat, poultry or fish by scraping off char.

The other way in which grilling produces carcinogens has to do with fat. When fat drips from the meat, poultry or fish into an open flame, the fire flares up and produces a dark colored smoke. This smoke comes into contact with the meat and renders it carcinogenic.

Fish and fish oil has additional problems even if you don’t grill it.

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3-13-2010 @7:34PM stork32533 said... Sounds like a tempest in a teapot. I say eat all the fish you want. Benefits have been proved. The writer is more likely to die of intractable paranoia than any ingestible problem.